I need to switch summer and winter around

[BurnitBlue]

I spend my summers in Greece on the boat in plus 30 to plus 40 degrees C. Too hot.

I spend my winters in Sweden in minus 5 to minus 30 degrees C. Too cold.

This is ridiculous and must stop.

I know I can switch hemispheres but need low cost air travel back to Sweden

Perhaps Canaries in the Winter and Sweden in the Summer.

Sweden is great in the summer both for sailing and sitting in the garden, and great in the winter snows for about three days, no more.

So I guess basically I need a good cruising ground in the Winter. The Caribbean would be absolutely fantastic but for the air-fares.

Any ideas please.

 

[Matelot Joe]

Talk about wanting your cake and eat it.

 

[BurnitBlue]

Talk about wanting your cake and eat it.

The continual search for perfection.

I am considering the Red Sea but before I commit myself I am wondering if there are other places I have missed.

I hate retracing my steps so if I eventually decided on the Red Sea Rally I would probably continue the next year into the Indian Ocean and then to Thailand where most Swedes holiday so possibly a fairly decent compromise via Charter Jets.

Perfection is there somewhere, although I haven't found it yet.

 

[nimbusgb]

Thailand?

 

[rustybarge]

it has been pouring rain here in the south of France, the winter weather in Portugal is better but can be very humid with short periods of rain everyday.
Red sea......brave! How close is the Sinai? seem to remember tourists being killed.
Malta....windy wet winters?

The weather is nice in Spain, grit your teeth and ignore the social stigma.

 

[BurnitBlue]

Thailand?

Don't know really because I have never been there. I have met a few boat people in the Ionian who have been there and it seems a great place. For many Swedes it is the preferred winter resort hence my comment about Charter jets. Sorry, not sure what your question is.

 

[BurnitBlue]

it has been pouring rain here in the south of France, the winter weather in Portugal is better but can be very humid with short periods of rain everyday.
Red sea......brave! How close is the Sinai? seem to remember tourists being killed.
Malta....windy wet winters?

The weather is nice in Spain, grit your teeth and ignore the social stigma.

I think I have sailed everywhere in the Med from Lebanon to Gibraltar. All cold, wet and windy in the winter. I cannot imagine Portugal to be much of an improvement. I realise the difficulty in identifying a place south enough for a mild European winter season that has reasonable air fares.

I am sure that if Ryanair or Easy jet flew to Thailand they could fill every seat twice a day. But then they would need longer range aircraft. One day perhaps.

As a matter of fact Martinique is apparently in the EU so what stops them flying there?

 

[Tam Lin]

Why not try the UK? Winter, grey, cold, wet, windy. Summer the same! What's not to like?

 

[BurnitBlue]

Why not try the UK? Winter, grey, cold, wet, windy. Summer the same! What's not to like?

Apart from being cold, wet and windy most of the inhabitants do not speak English. At least the med countries have an excuse.

 

[Tam Lin]

Apart from being cold, wet and windy most of the inhabitants do not speak English. At least the med countries have an excuse.

Ah booy, you be talking about that wicked old Lunnon place baint yer? Out here in the country we all talk proper English, oh ahrr!

 

[miyagimoon]

Red sea......brave! How close is the Sinai? seem to remember tourists being killed.

Why the scaremongering?

Egypt and the whole of the Red Sea as far South as and including Eritrea is perfectly safe. No pirates and the level of terrorism is supposedly the same as Turkey and Thailand.

The UK Foreign Office only recommends avoidance of the Northern Sinai and only essential travel in the Southern Sinai (and some inland areas) except for all the Sinai resort areas which are deemed as okay. The rest of Egypt is deemed as safe.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/egypt

 

[rustybarge]

Why the scaremongering?

Egypt and the whole of the Red Sea as far South as and including Eritrea is perfectly safe. No pirates and the level of terrorism is supposedly the same as Turkey and Thailand.

The UK Foreign Office only recommends avoidance of the Northern Sinai and only essential travel in the Southern Sinai (and some inland areas) except for all the Sinai resort areas which are deemed as okay. The rest of Egypt is deemed as safe.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/egypt

scary viewing......http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/battle-sinai/

 

[miyagimoon]

scary viewing......http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/battle-sinai/

Ah yes the 2012 Documentary by Al Jazeera's Fault Lines. Now that' what I call scaremongering!!!

 

[sailaboutvic]

it has been pouring rain here in the south of France, the winter weather in Portugal is better but can be very humid with short periods of rain everyday.
Red sea......brave! How close is the Sinai? seem to remember tourists being killed.
Malta....windy wet winters?

The weather is nice in Spain, grit your teeth and ignore the social stigma.

i

Malta is windy and wet ??????
Yes it dose rain in Jan and Feb but less then most places , as a rule you get a day or two of rain and wind followed by four or five days of dry sunny and great sailing winds . The real problem with Malta is finding a berth .

Best winter for weather so far for us as been almarimar .

 

[charles_reed]

I spend my summers in Greece on the boat in plus 30 to plus 40 degrees C. Too hot.

I spend my winters in Sweden in minus 5 to minus 30 degrees C. Too cold.

This is ridiculous and must stop.

I know I can switch hemispheres but need low cost air travel back to Sweden

Perhaps Canaries in the Winter and Sweden in the Summer.

Sweden is great in the summer both for sailing and sitting in the garden, and great in the winter snows for about three days, no more.

So I guess basically I need a good cruising ground in the Winter. The Caribbean would be absolutely fantastic but for the air-fares.

Any ideas please.

Do as birds do - switch hemispheres - the northern May- October the S the rest of the year. You have the ideal travelling home in which to do so..

Mind you'll miss saunas - I'm off to Finland in February just to be able to consider myself lucky that I spend the rest of the winter in England.
Incidentally it's been far warmer than normal in the Northern hemisphere and I suspect all dire doom-mongers re global warming will be gravely embarrassed by the temperatures over the next couple of decades, if the current solar flare activity continues.
Interesting times we live in, the battlefield between various climatological theories - the "it's getting colder" party are going to have their half-century of dominance over the "global warming" advocates.

 

[charles_reed]

i

Malta is windy and wet ??????
Yes it dose rain in Jan and Feb but less then most places , as a rule you get a day or two of rain and wind followed by four or five days of dry sunny and great sailing winds . The real problem with Malta is finding a berth .

Best winter for weather so far for us as been almarimar .

Interesting - definitely wet, about x4 UK and frequently windy, perhaps sailaboutvic hasn't experienced the flooding or seen the flood-warning lights in Birkikara. I've experienced both during my couple of winters in Malta
More rain but far shorter periods than many other parts of the world.

If you like to do the research, here are a couple of sites:-

www.maltaws.com/history?date=201010‎

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weat...0&MOD=&TMX=&TMN=&SON=&PRE=&MONAT=&OFFS=&SORT=

 

[rustybarge]

I do not know of any winter weather in the med that is reliable.
The nearest good winter weather area is the Canaries Islands. I had the misfortune to spend 3 weeks there some years ago......it is a cultural desert, full of low class chavs....think Benidorm on an Atlantic island in the middle of nowhere, not a blade of Grass to be seen.....a veritable moonscape.

Anyone tried the winters in Florida, cheap flights, and looks like a boating paradise?